I'm just curious how much it's going to feel like Silent Hill, which is a very fraught question in how you define it. Either way I think it's going to be worth the money and I'm gonna get it.

I think my questions just really can't be answered by a three minute long trailer.

Optimistic, not even in a qualified way, for this to be a great horror game.

And I don't want to flatten it down to "well it has to be in the town for it to count" because I think that's not necessarily true. I think on some level small towns the world over are the same, you could get those kind of vibes in midcentury Japan as easily as the US.

And Ryukishi's writing style lends itself to that kind of feeling a barely-below-the-surface oppressiveness. The trailer has some hints of it before we get to the supernatural stuff.

I think that's what is the essence of Silent Hill; it has a feeling it could happen just about anywhere because at its core it's a story about towns hiding a dark secret, theirs just happens to be a sentient nightmare.

(This is part of why I will give The Short Message a pass because it wasn't set in the town but it also got that feeling, it is a story about the ugly shit not let out into the light.)

(also because that was basically a vertical slice demo for a full game that Konami went "hey we changed our mind here's a little more money to make it stand-alone as best as you can.")

Like I said.

It looks good. I just have questions a three minute trailer cannot answer.